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 Fri, 03 March 2017
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23:31

Modi govt 'most anti-intellectual': Chidambaram

Terming the Modi government as the world's most anti-intellectual for questioning experts on GDP figures, former Finance Minister P Chidambaram today said the economy will take 12-18 months to recover from the devastating impact of demonetisation.     It (the government) even...
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Sacked RSS leader booked over bounty on Kerala CM

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A RSS leader who was sacked form the right-wing outfit for declaring Rs 1 crore bounty on Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, has been booked by police.Kundan Chandravat has been booked for on charges of inciting violence under Section 505 of the IPC.The developments came a day after...
22:29

J&K: Encounter breaks out between militants and security forces

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An encounter broke out between militants and security forces in Shopian district of Kashmir tonight. The gunfight erupted after security forces launched a cordon-and-search operation in Chillipora village of the district following information about presence of militants there, a police...
22:20

Exit polls on March 9, not 8: EC

People will have to wait for one more day to know the outcome of exit polls as the Election Commission today postponed their telecast to March 9 evening after elections to one seat each in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand are over.The last phase of polling in Uttar Pradesh and Manipur is on March 8....
22:13

Indus meet doesn't amount to Indo-Pak talks resumption: India

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India today downplayed its participation in an upcoming meeting in Pakistan to discuss various aspects of the Indus Waters Treaty, saying it does not amount to resumption of government-level Indo-Pak talks, whichhave been stalled over terrorist strikes by Pak-based groups.Senior government...
21:00

Alert across airports for rape-accused UP minister Gayatri Prajapati

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Airports across the country have been alerted about the possibility of UP Minister Gayatri Prajapati, accused of rape, trying to flee the country. A Letter of Cancellation will soon be opened against him and all airports have been alerted to prevent the 49-year-old Prajapati from fleeing the...
20:51

EC refuses to accept Dinakaran's reply on Sasikala's elevation as Gen Secy

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In a setback to Sasikala, the Election Commission has refused to acknowledge TTV Dinakaran's response to its query on allegations of VK Sasikala's wrongful appointment as interim General Secretary of All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, as he is not an office bearer in EC's records.The EC...
20:49

RSS leader who put bounty on Kerala CM's head, sacked

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Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh leader Kundan Chandravat, who had announced a bounty of Rs 1 crore for beheading the Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, was sacked by the right-wing outfit.Kundan who made controversial statement (on Kerala CM) at Ujjain protest meeting has been relieved of all...
19:45

RSS leader who put bounty on Kerala CM's head, sacked

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Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh leader Kundan Chandravat, who had announced a bounty of Rs 1 crore for beheading the Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, was sacked by the right-wing outfit.Kundan who made controversial statement (on Kerala CM) at Ujjain protest meeting has been relieved of all...
19:34

Indo-Nepal border sealed a day before sixth phase of UP Polls

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The Indo-Nepal border has been sealed, 24 hours before the polling in the sixth of the seven phased Uttar Pradesh assembly polls begins tomorrow. Voting for 49 Uttar Pradesh assembly seats will be held on March 4.The 84 km long Indo-Nepal border will be sealed 24 hours prior to the start of...
19:16

Rajnath reviews security situation in country

Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh today reviewed the security situation in the country, especially in Jammu and Kashmir and other border areas. National Security Adviser Ajit Doval, Union Home Secretary Rajiv Mehrishi, Director of Intelligence Bureau Rajiv Jain and other senior officials...
18:45

BJP to pay for fielding 'baagi' & 'daagi' candidates: Mayawati

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Bahujan Samaj Party president Mayawati today attacked the Bharatiya Janata Party saying its own cadre would teach its leaders a lesson for fielding 'baagi' (rebels) and 'daagi' (tainted) candidates in the UP assembly elections.    The BJP has become the number one party of the...
17:49

'Got over-emotional', says RSS leader retracting bounty on Kerala CM

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RSS leader Kundan Chandravat retracts bounty on Kerala CM, expresses regret. The leader says he got over-emotional after RSS deaths. To bring you up to speed, Chandravat on Thursday kicked up a row when he announced a Rs 1 crore bounty for beheading Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. The...
17:41

BSF hands over Pak national to Rangers

The BSF today repatriated an elderly Pakistani national who was arrested after inadvertently crossing over to the Indian side. The Pakistani national had crossed the International Border in Arnia sector yesterday, a BSF officer said. He was handed over to Pakistani Rangers at a Border Outpost...
17:14

BJP spokesperson Shaina NC stalked

BJP leader Shaina NC files a police complaint against a stalker who has been harassing her by sending vulgar messages through WhatsApp.
17:12

President finds Trump's Congress speech interesting

Interesting speech. President Pranab Mukherjee's verdict on US President Donald Trump's  address to Congress delivered Tuesday night. President Mukherjee was reading a 17-page printout of Trump's speech aboard Air India One en route to Delhi from Chennai today. The president asked the...
16:49

Fire at Trump's New York hotel

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Officials are investigating the cause of a fire that started at the Trump International Hotel and Tower in New York, reports the Independent.The blaze started on the 47th floor of the building, which overlooks Central Park, in the early hours of Friday morning.The fire brigade was called at...
16:30

US senator calls on Pakistan to not play 'both ways' with India

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Democrat Senator Mark Warner called upon Pakistan not to play both ways, by claiming to curb terrorism, while letting terror groups sneak into India.Pakistan cannot play both ways. On one hand, they say we are curbing terrorism and on the other, let other terror groups to sneak into India,...
16:06

India defies China, will host Dalai Lama in Arunachal

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The Union government representatives will meet the Dalai Lama when he visits Arunachal Pradesh in April, officials said, despite a warning from China that it would damage bilateral ties.India said the Tibetan spiritual leader will make a religious trip to Arunachal Pradesh next month, and as a...
15:59

Sanjay Dutt's security roughs up media, actor apologises

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A scuffle broke out in Agra between media persons and actor Sanjay Dutt's security guards during the shooting of his comeback film Bhoomi near the Taj Mahal.The incident took place when the film's unit was shooting at Kalakriti Taj VIP road yesterday. The bouncers started pushing the crowd away...
15:43

Sushma Swaraj hails Kansas shooting victim

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj has sent a personal message to 24-year-old Ian Grillot, who was injured while trying to intervene during a shooting in which an Indian techie was killed in Kansas, and wished him a speedy recovery. The Indian Consul-General in Houston, Anupam Ray, met...
15:41

China warns India against allowing Dalai to visit Arunachal

China on Friday warned India against allowing the Dalai Lama to visit Arunachal Pradesh, saying it would cause serious damage to the bilateral ties and peace in the disputed border region. China is gravely concerned over information that India has granted permission to the Dalai to visit...
15:08

2 security personnel killed in face-off with Naxals in Chattisgarh

Two security personnel were killed and as many injured in an exchange of fire with Naxals in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district on Friday, police said. The skirmish took place near Cherli village under Mirtur Police Station limits when a joint team of Chhattisgarh Armed Force and district...
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French football legend Raymond Kopa dies aged 85: AFP
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Rahul defamation case: Matter adjourned till Apr 21

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A Maharashtra court on Friday adjourned till April 21 the defamation case filed by the RSS against Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi's remark regarding Mahatma Gandhi's assassination.Gandhi was not present in the court today.Earlier in November last year, Gandhi was granted bail on the...
14:43

'RAW' agent Kulbhushan Yadav will not be extradited, says Pakistan

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Pakistan has categorically ruled out possibility of handing over a former Indian Navy officer Kulbhushan Yadav to India. Pakistan believes Yadav is a RAW agent. Radio Pakistan has this story: Pakistan's advisor on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz informed the Pakistan Senate today that the process has...
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Karnataka: Congress leader and former minister Kumar Bangarappa (son of former CM Sarekoppa Bangarappa), joins BJP.
13:46

BJP's 'sipahi' Gajendra Chauhan backs ban on 'gay' Malayalam film

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Not long after Prakash Jha's 'Lipstick Under My Burkha' was denied certification, the Central Board for Film Certification (CBFC) has found its latest victim in the Malayalam film 'Ka Bodyscapes' and FTII chairman Gajendra Chauhan justifies its move.I would like to appreciate Censor Board and...
13:30

SC no to urgent hearing on PIL for probe in ex-CM Pul's death

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The Supreme Court today refused to grant an urgent hearing on fresh PIL seeking independent probe into the alleged suicide of former Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Kalikho Pul. Sorry. Declined, a bench comprising Cheif Justice J S Khehar and Justices D Y Chandrachud and S K Kaul said. Advocate...
12:51

Shabana@UK Parliament

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Shabana Azmi will be speaking at The House Of Lords in the UK Parliament on Identity and Integration on 9th March on the theme, Separate but Equal', she tweets. 
12:48

Grenade attack on CRPF bunker in Kashmir's Pulwama district, 2 injured

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Just in: Suspected militants hurled grenades at a CRPF post in South Kashmir's Pulwama district. Two jawans have been injured. The CRPF post is at a busy market area. Last month, another grenade attack took place in Kakapora area in Pulwama. Prior to that an attack by Hizbul Mujahideen militants...
12:29

Indian origin girl racially abused in New Yorki

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An Indian-origin girl in the US has been allegedly racially abused by an African-American man (pictured alongside) who called her inappropriate names and yelled get out of here when she was travelling in a busy commuter train. Ekta Desai, who lives in New York, took a video of the incident that...
12:13

DU limps back to normalcy with NSUI's rose day

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The Congress Party's students wing, NSUI, starts the 'Gift a rose' campaign outside Ramjas college to restore peace in the campus.Teachers, students and journalists were wounded on the Delhi University campus as group clashes broke out over the disruption of a literary festival in Ramjas College...
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Bijapur (Chhattisgarh): Two jawans injured in an ongoing encounter between police and Naxals in Mirtur area.
11:45

Not being part of any Bollywood camps was a wrong move: Govinda

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Actor Govinda says the film industry has big camps and feels it was a wrong move on his part to not get into any. The 53-year-old actor had a successful career in the 90s but it slowed down after he joined politics in mid-2000s. Though he made a comeback of sorts with Partner, his recent outings...
11:31

'If I live in constant fear of being arrested, I'll stop the work I do'

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The Congress or Kejriwal may be corrupt but at least you will not be thrashed black and blue. Your children will not be threatened by those regimes. If the Aurangzeb road memory is valid, then the memory of the 2002 Gujarat riots is also valid.In an interview with Rediff.coms Syed...
11:28

The Congress party is comatose if not dead

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When the Congress party vanishes as a national force (meaning when it can no longer get sufficient votes to hold onto its symbol, the hand), it will not have been the first large Indian party to die, says Aakar Patel. Read the column here.
11:16

Uphaar case: SC to hear Gopal Ansal's plea against jail term on Monday

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SC agrees to hear on Monday the plea of Gopal Ansal against the jail term in Uphaar fire case.  A fresh plea has been filed by real estate baron Gopal Ansal seeking modification of the SC verdict asking him to serve the remaining jail term in the Uphaar fire case.The apex court had...
11:09

Whistleblower Army sahayak found dead

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The Times of India reports: An Army jawan who had figured in a sting operation by a news website criticising the 'sahayak' (orderly) system last month was found dead in mysterious conditions in an abandoned barrack in Deolali Cantonment in Maharashtra on Thursday. Roy Mathew, a gunner, was found...
10:59

TN CM Palaniswami to chair his first cabinet meeting today

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Edappadi K Palaniswami, who took oath as Tamil Nadu Chief Minister last month, will chair his maiden cabinet meeting at the State Secretariat in Chennai on Friday.Palaniswami had won the vote of confidence by a steep 122-11 margin after eviction of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) members...
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News18 reports: 'Whistleblower' Army Sahayak Mathew Roy found dead in his barracks in Deolali; Amy says he committed suicide.
10:31

I take back my harsh words on Sehwag: Javed Akhtar

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Noted lyricist Javed Akhtar, who had hit out at Virender Sehwag for his comments on Delhi University student Gurmehar Kaur, has said that he takes back his harsh words as the cricketer has already clarified his statements. Since Sehwag undoubtedly a great player has clarified he was just being...
10:23

Sensex takes a tumble

Market benchmark BSE Sensex stretched its losses to the second day today, shedding over 88 points in early trade on sustained profit-booking by investors after recent gains. Besides, a weak trend in other Asian bourses after a broad global rally, weighed on the trading sentiments here. The...
09:56

I was raped, sexually abused as a child, says Jane Fonda

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Hollywood legend Jane Fonda has revealed that she was raped and sexually abused when she was a child. The 79-year-old star, in an interview with actress Brie Larson for Net-a-Porter's The Edit, explained that she often felt diminished with the men in her life, according to The Hollywood...
09:32

Sardar Sarovar Project: SC to hear plea today

The Supreme Court will on Monday hear the issue of compensation in the Sardar Sarovar Project on the river Narmada.The apex court had earlier in its order awarded a compensation of Rs. 60 lakh each to 681 families affected by the Sardar Sardar Project in Madhya Pradesh and an amount of Rs 15 lakh...
09:32

Kerala: CPI-M office set ablaze hours after RSS unit is bombed

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The Communist Party of India office at Nadapuram in Kozhikode, Kerala was set on fire in an apparent retaliation for a crude bomb attack on the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh office hours earlier, NDTV reported quoting police sources.Four RSS workers were injured after some unknown persons hurled a...
09:01

Snapchat pops in Wall Street debut for messaging app

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Snapchat owner Snap Inc rode a wave of euphoria in its Wall Street debut today as investors sent shares of the popular messaging app soaring. In midday trade, Snap jumped 47 per cent to $25.06 in its market debut after raising USD 3.4 billion, in the richest US tech company listing since...
08:58

Infant Mortality Rate: Kerala now at par with US

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Kerala has become the best Indian state -- at par with US -- for new born babies with the 'God's own country' managing to bring down the Infant Mortality Rate 6.The IMR -- number of children under the age of 1 who die for every 1,000 born -- was released by the National Family Health Survey-4 in...
08:54

Pak can't play both ways, supporting terror and taking it on: US senator

US Senator Mark Warner, who is Co-Chair of the Senate India caucus and Ranking member of powerful Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, has said that while India and the US have a very strong relationship between the intelligence community, there is enormous concern not only about Pakistan's...
08:44

India to participate in Permanent Indus Commission meet in Lahore

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India is set to participate in the meeting of the Permanent Indus Commission, scheduled to be held in Lahore in March.Pakistan forwarded the invitation to India to resolve the Indus Water Treaty, sources say.The Permanent Indus Commission is a bilateral commission of officials from India and...
08:25

Trump on Sessions row: 'It is a total witch hunt!'

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US President Donald Trump has just released a statement on the scandal surrounding his Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Sessions is accused of lying to Congress about his conversations with Russian officials. Yet, he insists he did not speak with Russia about any political campaigns, which...
00:19

Jail authorities seek nod to shift Purohit from hospital to anda cell

Taloja jail authorities sought the special NIA court's nod to shift Lt Col Prasad Purohit, an accused in the 2008 Malegaon blast case, from the prison's hospital, where he has been staying for seven years, to a high-security 'anda cell'.    The authorities told the court that...
00:04

Syrian army announces recapture of Palmyra from Islamic State

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The Syrian army said on Thursday it had recaptured the ancient city of Palmyra from Islamic State for the second time in a year, with help from allied forces and Russian warplanes.Islamic State retook Palmyra in a surprise advance in December, after having been driven out eight months before....